Review by Booklist Review
In her fifteenth collection, one of our most accomplished poets is concerned more than ever before with ultimate matters-mortality, inspiration, and religious understanding. (Ag 87)
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Review by Library Journal Review
In her 15th collection, Levertov still stands in firm political opposition to the ``powers and principalities of death'' that ``weigh down the world.'' She is wisely resigned to the fate of the human spirit stuck in the physical world as it awaits the final ``unseen wall, the silence.'' While nature is oblivious and ``the days/ are falling/ . . . abandoned,'' the poet grieves for ``lost rivers,/ poisoned lakesall creatures, perhaps,/ to be fireblasted/off the/ whirling cinder we/loved. . . . '' Although her poems are replete with abstractions, and images and ideas are often strung together with no connections save those that the reader must supply, Levertov remains the consummate wordsmith. A notable addition to an important body of work. Leonard Kniffel, Detroit P.L. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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